Neil Bahadur

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NeilBahadur

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Crash 1996

★★★★★ Rewatched 02 Oct 2024

You could earnestly make a case for half of Cronenberg's filmography as his single best work, but this might be the most essentialized, most intelligent and sophisticated study on the theme that runs through the entirety of his artistic project - which is the transformation of sense-perception. Here, modernity is a culture of such complete desensitization that both sex and death now become coping mechanisms from the crudeness of reality. What a gift to see this explored without moralisms or…
Ferrari 2023

★★★★½ Rewatched 13 Sep 2024 3

Aside from some wonky performances (in fact, every role in this film may be miscast), this is Mann in full "art-film" mode for the first time in his career - and indeed, it's one of his best films. Both a character study and parable on the 20th Century industrialist, the chief engineer of the world we live in today - or, like the magazines say, "an industrial Saturn, devouring his own children." The racing sequences speak for themselves, brilliantly functioning…